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Giggs has dropped Mata and put Cleverley back in

Just seen Shelvey's goal. That's better than Rooney's from a while back IMO

I still think a 'British Isles' tournament would be class. There's no way the English would share a tournament though. Yeah, can imagine the Irish, Scotts and Welsh would love to play in something called a "British Isles" tournament. England could hold a major tournament on their own but I guess you could get a "Celtic" tournament between Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Although there'd probably a few who'd object to that too. 3 or 4 places taken up by s*** countries for starters. There's 24 teams in it now anyway, no good team will be left out

They were absolutely shit against us

Not really that remarkable considering how long Ferguson was there

Bigger chance of people just calling Pardew a moron if that happens. I'm not talking about Newcastle fans, I'm talking about fans of other clubs who think Pardew is doing a good job

You just know that if he goes to Italy and does well, people will say he couldn't hack it in the Barclays Premier League™, the best league in the world

RIP, awful, awful news

Course he is Is he? I'll admit I don't watch every game they play but the last few I've seen he hasn't been starting Started 9 of 11 games in CL and 23 of 32 in the league. Think he's the player that has played most game over the past 2 seasons in Europe. Played something like 80 games over a year. My point wasn't that he hasn't played a lot of games over the season, its that he hasn't started many games lately that I've seen. Also 23 of 32 in the league isn't exactly a lot of games

Course he is Is he? I'll admit I don't watch every game they play but the last few I've seen he hasn't been starting

I think Willian's a good player. He's not anything special and doesn't have much flair but works his arse off and is good technically. I think Ramires and Oscar have both gotten worse under Mourinho. Oscar was very good last season while this season he seems to spend too much time defending and isn't showing much going forward. He's not even a starter for Chelsea anymore

Haven't really been impressed by Pogba here

That's outstanding

Marchisio has been awful for Juve. He runs a lot but has no quality

Siqueira's having a cracking game. Neither team has really created much apart from set pieces. Cardozo's barely had a touch for Benfica

Juventus look awful. Sitting really deep and just passing it around the back 5 when they get it until one of them tries a Hollywood pass up to Tevez and Vucinic. They are starting to look a bit better now alright

Siqueira looks very good going forward. Juve can't get Pirlo on the ball

1 nil Benfica already

he already has, he's won the FA Cup with f***ing Wigan and Everton already have their highest ever points total with three games to go The amount of points doesn't really matter. Well it does if it gets them into the champions league but if they finish 5th it doesn't matter in the slightest. Beginning to think you should have changed your username to Trigger tbh Seriously though, points make prizes mate, it really is that simple Just read the next sentence maybe you might be able to understand what I was saying then Well I can't agree with it either I'm afraid. Even if they miss out on 4th spot, they will still have had a good season, winning and drawing more games than any other season that has gone before. Surely that's some sort of progression and a benchmark to aim for and surpass in the future? If you attach points to a cup run, Wigan finished with more points at the end of that competition than the 91 other league clubs. Everton have had a very good season. That is without doubt, whether they finish 4th or 6th. Last season Tottenham finished 5th with a record amount of points, nobody cares, their manager got sacked this season. If he had got champions league last season I think he would've been given more time. It matters where you finish, not how many points you get

Frightening how wrong all this is. How is it wrong? I'm not saying he got them into the PL, I'm saying he set a foundation for the club and took them from League one to a playoff challenger in the Championship. Also there's no way you can't agree they didn't have the worst squad in the league year after year. a) He didn't "basically make them a Premier League club", they had two managers after him. b) He didn't "win the FA Cup while keeping Wigan up" c) It's not Everton's highest ever points total. It was all wrong. Incidentally, if you're going down the route of "Martinez built Swansea even though he didn't have direct influence on promotion", then I'm afraid Moyes completely blows him out the water as far as Everton are concerned. good post

Frightening how wrong all this is. How is it wrong? I'm not saying he got them into the PL, I'm saying he set a foundation for the club and took them from League one to a playoff challenger in the Championship. Also there's no way you can't agree they didn't have the worst squad in the league year after year. Last season their team was no worse or not much worse than Norwich, Villa, Reading (they were better than Reading), Sunderland, Fulham and maybe a few more I'm forgetting about

he already has, he's won the FA Cup with f***ing Wigan and Everton already have their highest ever points total with three games to go The amount of points doesn't really matter. Well it does if it gets them into the champions league but if they finish 5th it doesn't matter in the slightest. Beginning to think you should have changed your username to Trigger tbh Seriously though, points make prizes mate, it really is that simple Just read the next sentence maybe you might be able to understand what I was saying then

Wigan being the hotspot for attracting footballers like? How did Bruce get them to 11th so if their players were so shit?

And whose fault is it they had a shit team? Maybe Martinez for buying shit players. Bruce had them 11th.